Top Tweets Of The Week From The Fringe And Famous (PICTURES)

It's time for another edition of Short And Tweet! We're bringing you the newsiest, most buzzworthy tweets of the week, from Foursquare hits to celeb shivers and Sarah Palin's vocab gaffes.

About Short And Tweet: Some tweets make news, and some of those tweets break news. HuffPost Tech's new weekly feature of the top newsmaking tweets of the week will showcase both.

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Short And Tweet: July 16 - July 23

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On Sunday, Sarah Palin made a vocab gaffe via Twitter: "Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refudiate the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real." [Emphasis added] She later re-posted the Tweet, swapping "refudiate" for "refute." In yet another post, Palin defended her use of language, tweeting about Shakespeare's penchant for coining new words (which she compared to her own).

This week, Lindsay Lohan began serving her 90-day jail sentence. Although it is likely that she will serve "25% or less of [her] sentence due to overcrowding," writes the L.A. Times, Lohan expressed anxiety in her final tweets. "The only 'bookings' that I'm familiar with are Disney Films, never thought that I'd be 'booking into jail," the star tweeted. "Eeeks."

Foursquare's business development head Tristan Walker announced the milestone on Twitter. via Business Insider)

At the Microsoft Global Exchange (MGX) conference, Microsoft announced that it would give all of its employees a free Windows Phone 7 device. By Engadget's reckoning, that comes to around 90,000 phones. Some excited Microsoft employees raved about the giveaway on Twitter (like this user).

Sarah Palin's "Refudiate" gaffe (see above) gave way to a meme (#Shakespalin) and a new @Shakespalin. Twitter account

@SamsungUKMobile began reaching out, via Twitter, to iPhone users who tweeted about issues and frustrations with their Apple smartphone to offer them a free Galaxy S handset.

IPv4Countdown, a Twitter account that provides "info regarding the depletion of the IPv4 address pool" using data sourced from http://ipv6.he.net/ warned the internet will run out of addresses in less than one year (Both Google and American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) confirm that timeline). ReadWriteWeb explains the solution:
Currently the Web largely uses IPv4, Internet Protocol version 4. Each IPv4 address is limited to a 32-bit number, which means there are a maximum of just over 4 billion unique addresses. IPv6 is the next generation Internet Protocol and uses a 128-bit address, so it supports a vastly larger number of unique addresses.